Insertion enterprises are described as economic nature activities whose goal is the socio-economic insertion -by generating employment opportunities- for the so-called "social disabled people": ethnic minorities, immigrants, homeless, former convicts, former alcoholics and former drug addicts....

Almost all of us sometimes voluntarily give up some scarce resources to make someone else better. Not only the amount of resources used for such purposes, but also other wider concerns (implications for private and government sector) have drawn the attention of economists in recent decades. In...

Economic activity in a mixed economy is shared among different kinds of organizations: private for-profit, private non-profit and governmental organizations, which are closely interdependent among them. For a long time the private non-profit sector has been considered as a marginal sector that...

This work presents a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Italy including, for the first time, an economic account of the non-profit sector (or “third sector”). The year it refers to is 1999. In the first part of this article I address statistical definition of the non-profit sector and how I...

Using comparable cross-section data on expenditures and labor force in the nonprofit sector for a sample of 25 nations, I test a series of hypotheses about their determinants. A small number of variables, of which the level of economic development and the role of government, are the most...

This paper tries to explain how the confrontation between economic liberalism, politic liberalism and civil liberalism, from 1789 to 1901, leads to transform the way of thinking of the non profit sector.